The book of Job: a contest of moral imaginations

CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS 1. The Book of Job as Polyphonic Text 2. The Impregnable Word: Genre and Moral Imagination in the Prose Tale 3. Critical Curiosity: Genre and Moral Imagination in the Wisdom Dialogue 4. Consolations of God: The Moral Imagination of the Friends 5. Broken in Pieces by Words/Breaking Words in Pieces: Job and the Limits of Language 6. Dialogics and Allegory: The Wisdom Poem of Job 7. A Working Rhetorical World: Job's Self-Witness in Chapters 29-31 8. The Dissatisfied Reader: Elihu and the Historicity of the Moral Imagination 9. The Voice from the Whirlwind: The Tragic Sublime and the Limits of Dialogue CONCLUSION NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX